Blogging May Help Teens Dealing With Social Distress
Teens Blogging About Social Problems, Engaging with Online Community Showed Significant Improvement, According to New Research
Schizophrenia Diagnosis Associated With Progressive Brain Changes among Adolescents
SPAIN-Adolescents diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychoses appear to show greater decreases in gray matter volume and increases in cerebrospinal fluid in the frontal lobe compared to healthy adolescents without a diagnosis of psychosis, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Deer Antlers Inspire New Theory on Osteoporosis
SPAIN-The loss of manganese could mean that calcium does not stick to bones and could cause osteoporosis. This is the new theory put forward by researchers at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) in Spain after studying deer antlers. The hypothesis published this month in the Frontiers of Biosciencejournal still needs to be confirmed by […]
Commonly Used Blood Pressure Drug Prevents Smoking-Related Lung Damage In Mice
Finding advances likelihood of using losartan for chronic emphysema and bronchitis, and other chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases BALTIMORE, Maryland — Working with mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins have successfully used a commonly prescribed blood pressure medicine, losartan (Cozaar), to prevent almost all of the lung damage caused from two months of exposure to cigarette smoke. […]